Re: Using QuickForm_Controller

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:59:20PM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote: > On 6/8/05, Ken Restivo <ken@restivo.org> wrote: > > I've spent the last month or so wrestling with QuickForm_Controller. I have almost > > defeated it, but it is putting up one hellacious fight. > > > > The biggest challenge is that no code which makes use of $_REQUEST['blah'] can > > ever be expected to work with QFC. This is because QFC stores state in $_SESSION in between > > requests, and looks there for everything. Of course, I stupidly had $_REQUEST crap all over my app. > > > > What I have had to do in order to make my application QFC-compatible is: > > > > 1) Replace all uses of $_REQUEST with $page->getSubmitValues(), or the various > > $controller->container() access hacks that are documented in QFC's FAQ, and > > Actually, all QF code should really be using exportValues() as it > sanitizes and only returns the values that are actually *in* the QF. > This should have been expected. > Thanks. Makes sense. > > > > 2) Make sure that all my hidden's are actual $page->addElement('hidden', > > blah blah) in the parent form, instead of hacking them in using ->toHTML() methods. > > Of course....if you're using raw HTML in your forms you're not using > QF as it's supposed to be used. > > > > > This has often involved slipping references to the QF into my custom elements, much as > > Justin has done in his SubForm::setParentForm() method. > > Hopefully this shouldn't be needed often.. Remember if you're doing > your own element you can always have a hidden element within it. You Really? How, exactly? I haven't seen any examples of this yet; didn't know it was possible. > can even extend the group element and do it that way. If you're using > a ref to the form you can most likely do it in a better way. THe only > reason SubForm has that ref is because it's a hack to make a form > within a form and I need to copy values from the main form. > - -- - --------------- The world's most affordable web hosting. http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCp6eIe8HF+6xeOIcRAtf5AKD/Pr9sM//0TSuXioyKWZzjMUW/DgCcCtvB pontRSxoMyZ43lCLPp5IAT8= =zlf7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----